Publications

Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2025). DeepMeaning: Estimating and Interpreting Scene Meaning for Attention Using a Vision-Language Transformer. Open Mind.

Oakes L.M., Hayes T.R., Klotz S.M., Pomaranski K.I., Henderson J.M. (2024). The role of local meaning in infants’ fixations of natural scenes. Infancy.

Rehrig G., Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M., Ferreira F. (2023). Visual attention during seeing for speaking in healthy aging. Psychology and Aging.

Peacock C.E., Singh P., Hayes T.R., Rehrig G., Henderson J.M. (2023). Searching for meaning: Local scene semantics guide attention during natural visual search in scenes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2022). Scene inversion reveals distinct patterns of attention to semantically interpreted and uninterpreted features. Cognition.

Rehrig G., Barker M., Peacock C.E., Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M., Ferreira F. (2022). Look at what I can do: Object affordances guide visual attention while speakers describe potential actions. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2022). Meaning maps detect the removal of local semantic scene content but deep saliency models do not. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Kiat J.E., Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M., Luck S.J. (2022). Rapid extraction of the spatial distribution of physical saliency and semantic informativeness from natural scenes in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience.

Peacock C.E., Cronin D.A., Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2021). Meaning and expected surfaces combine to guide attention during visual search in scenes. Journal of Vision.

Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2021). Deep saliency models learn low-, mid-, and high-level features to predict scene attention. Scientific Reports.

Kiat J.E., Luck S.J., Beckner A.G., Hayes T.R., Pomaranski K.I., Henderson J.M., Oakes L.M. (2021). Linking patterns of infant eye movements to a neural network model of the ventral stream using representational similarity analysis. Developmental Science.

Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2021). Looking for Semantic Similarity: What a Vector Space Model of Semantics Can Tell Us About Attention in Real-world Scenes. Psychological Science.

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Henderson J.M., Hayes T.R., Peacock C.E., Rehrig G. (2021). Meaning maps capture the density of local semantic features in scenes: A reply to Pedziwiatr, Kümmerer, Wallis, Bethge & Teufel (2021). Cognition.

Pomaranski K.I., Hayes T.R., Kwon M.K., Henderson J.M., Oakes L.M. (2021). Developmental changes in natural scene viewing in infancy. Developmental Psychology.

Rehrig G., Peacock C.E., Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M., Ferreira F. (2020). Where the Action Could Be: Speakers Look at Graspable Objects and Meaningful Scene Regions when Describing Potential Actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Henderson J.M., Goold J.E., Choi W., Hayes T.R. (2020). Neural Correlates of Fixated Low- and High-level Scene Properties during Active Scene Viewing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Rehrig G., Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M., Ferreira F. (2020). When scenes speak louder than words: Verbal encoding does not mediate the relationship between scene meaning and visual attention. Memory & Cognition.

Cronin D.A., Hall E.H., Goold J.E., Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2020). Eye Movements in Real-World Scene Photographs: General Characteristics and Effects of Viewing Task. Frontiers in Psychology.

Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2020). Center bias outperforms image salience but not semantics in accounting for attention during scene viewing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2019). Scene semantics involuntarily guide attention during visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Peacock C.E., Hayes T.R., Henderson, J.M. (2019). The role of meaning in attentional guidance during free viewing of real-world scenes. Acta Psychologica.

Henderson J.M., Hayes T.R., Peacock C.E., Rehrig G. (2019). Meaning and Attentional Guidance in Scenes: A Review of the Meaning Map Approach. Vision.

Peacock C.E., Hayes, T.R., Henderson J.M. (2019). Meaning guides attention during scene viewing, even when it is irrelevant. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Henderson J.M., Hayes T.R., Rehrig G., Ferreira F. (2018). Meaning Guides Attention during Real-World Scene Description. Scientific Reports.

Henderson J.M., Hayes T.R. (2018). Meaning guides attention in real-world scene images: Evidence from eye movements and meaning maps. Journal of Vision.

Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2018). Scan patterns during scene viewing predict individual differences in clinical traits in a normative sample. PLoS ONE.

Henderson J.M., Hayes T.R. (2017). Meaning-based guidance of attention in scenes as revealed by meaning maps. Nature Human Behaviour.

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Hayes T.R., Henderson J.M. (2017). Scan patterns during real-world scene viewing predict individual differences in cognitive capacity. Journal of Vision.

Hayes T.R., Petrov A.A. (2016). Mapping and correcting the influence of gaze position on pupil size measurements. Behavior Research Methods.

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Hayes T.R., Petrov A.A. (2016). Pupil diameter tracks the exploration-exploitation trade-off during analogical reasoning and explains individual differences in fluid intelligence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hayes T.R., Petrov A.A., Sederberg P.B. (2015). Do we really become smarter when our fluid-intelligence test scores improve?. Intelligence.

Hayes T.R., Petrov A.A., Sederberg P.B. (2011). A novel method for analyzing sequential eye movements reveals strategic influence on Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices. Journal of Vision.

Petrov A.A., Hayes T.R. (2010). Asymmetric transfer of perceptual learning of luminance- and contrast-modulated motion. Journal of Vision.